Cerebellum
English Punctuation: Hyphenated Number and Apostrophe and Ellipses
Imagine a world without punctuation - it would be chaos! Understand these powerful little signs and the rules for using them. Add some flair to your sentences with dramatic dashes, hyphens, and the ever-useful apostrophe. This is part 4...
Curated Video
Editing for Grammar and Spelling: Improving Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how to ensure that readers can read and understand your writing by correcting grammar and spelling mistakes. The teacher emphasizes the importance of rereading and looking for specific types of...
Learn French With Alexa
French Weather and Seasons
Learn some useful French weather and season vocabulary.
Learn French With Alexa
The French Definite Article
Learn the different ways of saying "the" in French.
Mazz Media
Possessive Nouns
This program introduces possessive nouns to young students. Learns will come to know that a possessive noun shows that a person, animal, place, thing or idea can possess something. "Possess" means to have or to own. Through real life...
Wonderscape
Commonly Confused Homophones
This program meets Common Core 4th grade language standards by introducing and differentiating between commonly confused homophones, such as to/too/two and there/their/they're. Detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as...
Advocate of Wordz
Epistrophe & Anaphora - Poetry Defined
There are many literary and poetic devices we use in our everyday speech. Epistrophe and Anaphora are also the kind of literary devices which can be a great and easy introduction into poetry for our youth. But don't be mistaken my...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophe: A Literary Device
This video lesson focuses on apostrophe, a literary device (not the punctuation mark). It explains that apostrophe is used in literature to create conversations between a character and an absent or dead person or a non-human entity and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes
A brief audiovisual presentation that explains what an apostrophe is and its three main uses [3:22]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions
A screencast lesson introducing contractions and explaining how to use apostrophes when forming contractions. [2:56]
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in to Learning: Writing
Watch a video [2:57] to learn the difference between singular and plural possessives and how to use apostrophes correctly with each.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Plural Possessives
Watch this video to learn how to use plural possessives correctly. [1:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Apostrophe
David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, introduce a new piece of punctuation: the apostrophe!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Contractions
Apostrophes are great at standing in for missing letters, allowing us to shorten words. Paige and David discuss contractions and the Principle of Least Effort.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bonus: History of the Possessive Apostrophe
David, Paige, and Jake cover the fascinating history of the possessive apostrophe. Stay tuned for this bonus video!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bonus: History of the Apostrophe
The apostrophe has a bizarre history, including being the name for something that's not really related to grammar at all. David, Paige, and special guest Jake explain.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Apostrophes and Plurals
There is *one* extremely rare case in which we use apostrophes to make things plural. David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, discuss this unusual case.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession
Paige and David talk about using apostrophes to show that something belongs to multiple people.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive
Apostrophes can help show when something belongs to someone. Paige and David explain how!
Songs for Teaching
Contractions Song for Learning
Contractions are easy when you use this song to help you remember how to form them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Pronoun Possessives: Common Issues
This lesson explores common errors made with apostrophes and how to correct them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Apostrophes
This lesson explores common errors made with apostrophes and how to correct them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
This lesson explains the use of apostrophes to form possessives.
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: N Apostrophe T
Learn this simple contraction with this clever song.